File spoon-archives/surrealist.archive/surrealist_1996/96-08-21.184, message 12


Date: Mon, 01 Jul 1996 15:01:58 -0400
From: Michael Betancourt <mwb2-AT-mosquito.com>
Subject: Re: exhibition, introduction


>As part of the exhibition itself it might be appropriate to
>clarify the way Surrealism differs from various of its
>"sibling-movements", such as abstract expressionism, pop,
>Cobra, situationism, and other movements such as dada and
>post-modernism (plus all the versions of "neo-dada"). We all
>know, that many people have rather strange ideas about
>what Surrealism really is, and this might be one way of finally
>getting things right. It could be used as a kind of introduction
>to the exhibition.
>What do you think?

This sounds like an unfortunately necessary idea.

At the same time, I don't like it. If we need a disclaimer to prove we're
surreal, then surrealism is dead... 

I think we discussed this problem some time ago...

-- Michael Betancourt
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